Superconvergence for the gradient of finite element approximations by L2 projections

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1263-1280

  Heimsund, Bjørn Ove ^a   Tai, Xue Cheng ^a   Wang, Junping ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive refinement; Error estimates; Finite element methods; Superconvergence

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CURVE FITTING; ELASTICITY; ERROR CORRECTION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

SUPERCONVERGENCE;

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 0141645584     PISSN: 00361429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S003614290037410X     Document Type: Article

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